Sentences with phrase «relatively constant rate»

It appears the switchover mainly took place at a relatively constant rate between the early 1970's and the early 1990's.

Our results support previous findings of a reduced rate of surface warming over the 2001 — 2014 period — a period in which anthropogenic forcing increased at a relatively constant rate.»

Unlike puppies, which arrive in shelters at a relatively constant rate throughout the year, kitten intake is clustered in the late spring and summer months in a phenomenon known as kitten season.

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While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and peak in the 50s, while general satisfaction with life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.

Likewise, if the rate of unemployment stays relatively constant this month, that will represent a fairly strong decline in the momentum of unemployment, which would also be a positive.

The shift to budget surpluses at the federal level has raised public saving, so that the US national saving rate has been relatively constant in recent years.

Most bond mutual funds seek to maintain a relatively constant interest rate sensitivity for their investors.

While aquifers do recharge over time — the nation's water tables kept to a relatively constant level during the historically wet, cool years of the 1960s and 1970s — that rate of recharge can't make up for water use in the West.

In mature forests, researchers observed very stable manakin survival rates regardless of climatic shifts, suggesting a relatively constant abundance of fruit resources.

Live births declined by 10 percent between 1990 and 2010, while fetal loss rates remained relatively constant, according to data in the report.

The results showed that the general importance of the subject was relatively constant, but with greater emphasis and wider year level participation in the publishing project, there were significant increases to the overall satisfaction rate (moving from 65 per cent in 2012 to 85 per cent in 2013).

Flat Yield Curve - This curve indicates the yields of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term premium.

If you own mortgage bonds, what you really want is for interest rates to stay relatively constant.

The sun was generally good, but there were some high thin clouds moving in and out — I tried to pick periods of relatively constant sun intensity for each flow rate run.

After such calculations have been made, the premium rates stays relatively constant throughout the duration of the policy given that the policy holder does not make any major changes to the plan.

Prior to the Brexit at the end of June, interest rates remained relatively constant throughout the quarter.